Do you think esa vaina is going to listen to a thing you say? Just vote him down and do what you gotta do.

Mirabel,

Youre right but dont vote him down. Do what you guys are doing. Show the world he doesnt represent your people. There a small percentage of people like that in every country.

Agreed.

Glad to see this thread still is destroyed@

I Truely love my Haitians, and yes we have miss lead ourselves. But we are all one at the end of the day because we faught to be free together......

Thousands of slaves found freedom by fleeing from their masters, forming communities of maroons and raiding isolated plantations. The most famous was Mackandal, a one-armed slave, originally from Guinea, who escaped in 1751. A Vodou Houngan (priest), he united many of the different maroon bands. He spent the next six years staging successful raids and evading capture by the French, reputedly killing over 6,000 people, while preaching a fanatic vision of the destruction of white civilization in St. Domingue. In 1758, after a failed plot to poison the drinking water of the plantation owners, he was captured and burned alive at the public square in Cap-Français.

Saint-Domingue also had the largest and wealthiest free population of color in the Caribbean, the gens de couleur (French, "people of color". The mixed-race community in Saint-Domingue numbered 25,000 in 1789. First-generation gens de couleur were typically the offspring of a male, French slaveowner and an African slave chosen as a concubine. In the French colonies, the semi-official institution of "plaçage" defined this practice. By this system, the children were free people and could inherit property, thus originating a class of "mulattos" with property and some with wealthy fathers. This class occupied a middle status between African slaves and French colonists. Some Africans also enjoyed status as gens de couleur. (See also Mestizo).

As numbers of gens de couleur grew, the French rulers enacted discriminatory laws. Statutes forbade gens de couleur from taking up certain professions, marrying whites, wearing European clothing, carrying swords or firearms in public, or attending social functions where whites were present. However, these regulations did not restrict their purchase of land, and many accumulated substantial holdings and became slave-owners. By 1789, they owned one-third of the plantation property and one-quarter of the slaves of Saint-Domingue.[6] Central to the rise of the gens de couleur planter class was the growing importance of coffee, which thrived on the marginal hillside plots to which they were often relegated. The largest concentration of gens de couleur was in the southern peninsula, the last region of the colony to be settled, owing to its distance from Atlantic shipping lanes and its formidable terrain, with the highest mountain range in the Caribbean.



Yall Made Me go bk to Wikipedia-however youspel it...
But I dont was to be divided we love each other soo much we are argueing as of who is more Dominican than the next!! Jus prove your points and move on. But I love how u guys show passion about your facts; yall made me revert bk to ma findings. Haiti with the right guidance will ascend and I hope that I can go bk to accompany them on that journey....Haitia isn't all that our arrogant selves say it tobe but we jus love how strong we are; I am also guilty of this arrogance...that is y my family left to better ourselves, and now we too are a family of doctors, lawyer, agents, teachers and so forth..

Gud Day To All

Sammy gets it. Why can't you.
Present D.R:

Future D.R:

Someone posted the idea of Cibao seperating.

The Haitians get their own land. Afro Domnicans who want to live in a crime, drug and prostitution ridden state can also do so. And then that leaves the rest of us.!

Bill Clinton Lobbies For Earthquake Aid To Haiti

JONATHAN M. KATZ | 10/ 7/10 07:02 AM | AP

Former US president and UN Special Envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton(C) greets local residents on October 6, 2010 in a city camp in Port-au-Prince. The Clinton Foundation announced that it will, through its Haiti Relief Fund - provide 500,000 USD in bridge funding for a camp in Petionville run by the J/P Haitian Relief Organization. 'Rebuilding housing for more than 1 million people displaced by the earthquake will take time, as teams on the ground continue to clear rubble and build infrastructure, i


PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Former President Bill Clinton said desperately needed U.S. aid is coming to Haiti despite delays after listening on Wednesday to refugees in a sprawling homeless camp complain of a lack of food, jobs and housing nine months after a devastating earthquake.

Clinton, the co-chair of the commission overseeing Haiti's reconstruction, expressed frustration with the slow delivery of promised funds by donors who have delivered about $732 million of a promised $5.3 billion in funds for 2010-11, along with debt relief. Most notably absent is the United States, which has yet to deliver any of its promised $1.15 billion.

"First of all, in the next day or so it will become obvious that the United States is making a huge down payment on that," the former U.S. president and husband of the current secretary of state told reporters without providing details. "Secondly I'm not too concerned – although I'm frustrated – because the Congress have approved the money that the Secretary of State and the White House asked for."

The stakes were made clear in a morning visit to a storm-battered hillside former golf-course in Port-au-Prince now home to 55,000 increasingly desperate Haitians, who told Clinton amid mosquito swarms and fraying tarps that they need money, jobs, houses and education to get out of the dangerous and inhospitable camp where they are stuck.

Hours later Clinton and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive stood in the sweltering heat before the former U.S. Embassy that is now Bellerive's office to announce $777 million in projects for education, business, rubble removal and other areas freshly approved by the commission they jointly lead.

Clinton singled out, without naming, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn for holding up an authorization bill that could have eased the flow of money. Coburn's secret hold on the bill – used because he objected to a $5 million provision to create the office of a senior Haiti coordinator of U.S. policy – was revealed by an Associated Press investigation last week.

Citing "a rather bizarre system of rules in the United States Senate," Clinton said that "barely over one-half of 1 percent of the money that's been approved is holding up all the rest."

"Since I believe that we are still essentially a sane as well as a humane country I believe the money will be released, and when that happens that will also give a lot of other donors encouragement to raise their money," Clinton said.

This week the U.S. funds were prepared for release with the approval of a State Department spending plan. But in part because of a lack of detail it will take at least weeks and perhaps more for the funds to start being delivered on contracts such as rubble removal, a congressional staffer said.
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At Tuesday's meeting the U.S. government also pledged a $120 million contribution to a World Bank-managed reconstruction fund with money for rubble removal, housing, education, business credit and budgetary support. It is not clear if that money is coming from the supplemental request funding its donors-conference pledge, or when it will be delivered.

The State Department has also gone ahead and created a nearly identical office to the one Coburn objected to last week, naming department veteran Thomas C. Adams to the post of special Haiti coordinator.

But the Oklahoma Republican will not release his hold, because he does not believe he is preventing money from being spent on Haiti's reconstruction.

"Dr. Coburn wants to approve additional funds without increasing the deficit and without creating duplicative roles," said Coburn staffer John Hart. "What we've seen is the typical Washington game of demonizing one senator to distract the public from the incompetence in Congress and the State Department."

During his visit to the camp, Clinton donated $500,000 to the J/P Haitian Relief Organization co-founded by actor Sean Penn, which provides services there.

Camp residents, some up to their ankles in mud, hooted and cheered as the former president walked deeper into the camp, exclaiming, "We are hungry!" and "We can't take this anymore!" Some called for the ouster of President Rene Preval and the return of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Edwin Auguste, a 26-year-old unemployed man who lost both parents and his home in the quake, said he was glad that Clinton came, but that he has lost what little faith he had in Haitian leaders and the international community.

"When the leaders tell the Haitian people I will do something for you, after that they do nothing," he said.

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Associated Press writer Martha Mendoza contributed to this story

"When the leaders tell the Haitian people I will do something for you, after that they do nothing," he said

Well I do not know which is worse to do nothing or to do something and make things worse. That is precisely what Clinton created for Haiti. He practically put the small producer and put them out of business because of his great idea to import cheap foodstuff and flooded the Haitian market but putting everyone else out of business.